Hotel Locations and Attributes in Washington D.C.

District of Columbia GIS provides a dataset of hotel locations and attributes for Washington D.C., created by the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer. Data was compiled from the DC Taxi Commission and commercial websites, then geocoded by DC GIS staff. The dataset is available in multiple formats including CSV and GEOJSON.

Use Cases

• Map hotel locations using the geocoded coordinates for urban planning and tourism analysis.
• Analyze the distribution of lodging types such as hotels and bed and breakfasts across D.C. neighborhoods.
• Integrate hotel point data with other geographic layers via the OGC WMS service for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple interoperable formats including GEOJSON, KML, and CSV.
• Sourced from official D.C. government agencies including the DC Taxi Commission.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset lacks row and column counts, making its scale and feature depth unknown.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing assessment of data structure and attribute completeness prior to download.

Provenance

Source

District of Columbia government, D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).

Collection Method

Compiled from a DC Taxi Commission database and commercial websites, then geocoded by DC GIS staff.

Freshness

Last updated on February 4, 2025.

Geography

Washington D.C., District of Columbia.